The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mexico reports a big business
boom, with a great rush of foreign cap
ital.
"A Law taxing cats at ten cents per
capita is proposed by a legislator IN
Georgia.
Augusta, Wisconsin, reports the
fall of a yellowish snow there a day
or two ago.
The last census of Berlin places
the number of Americans residing
there at 979.
"A 25-foot shark is reported to have
been taken In Monterey, California,
bay a week ago,
The remains of a mastodon Of the
largest size have been discovered near
Atlanta, Georgia.
Emil Mancke, a famous German
wrestler, weighs AL pounds, and is .
feet II inches tall,
Prohibition is expected to carry all
the counties in Dakota outside OF the
Black Hills next Fall.
Jubilee" Juggins is the name by
which the present "plunger" on the
English turf is known.
"A projected underground railway
is to use cables as a means of propulsion
and be lighted by electricity.
During the reign of Augustus
Caesar, Rome, 1t is calculated, had q
population of about 2,500,00
Monterey is said to remain more
Enthusiastically Mexican than any
other city or town in California.
"A famous deer forest, Applecross,
in West Ross-shIre, is 0 TO be sold.
1t extends to about 10000 acres.
The Hot Springs, near Carson,
Nevada, have suddenly fallen fifteen
inches, although the flow of water has
not diminished.
"A snall's pace, according to the
Terre Haute Express, has been asoer.
tanned by experiment TO be q mile in
fourteen days.
Sealing off Cape Flattery is i'm
proving. The arrivals are reported in
myriads, and coming closer to the cape
than eVer DeIore.
Mine negro c~hieftains, with unpro-
.nounceable names, but who are said to
talk English well, have been among
the late 'lions'' in Paris.
"A pisciculturist Of Vienna, N. J.,
is said to have $4,000 carp, the product
of five young German carp received by
him in the spring Of 1882.
"A Pittsburg drummer is testing
the right of Helena, Montana Territory,
to collect a license from him under tho
recent Supreme Court decision.
The Colonial Exhibition in Eng
land netted a profit of e35, 235. OF this
E25 ,000 were presented by the trustees
to the Imperial Institute fuLd.
Jacob WEIGH, of Richie county,
West Virginia, cut down a hollow
maple tree the other day, from which
ran twenty-seven full grown squirrels.
The widow OF George A. Comfy,
the well-known basso of Philada., who
was drowned III five years ago, died
in New York recently, of consump-
tion.
The highest spot inhabited by
human beings is said to be the Budd-
hist cloister of Hanie, Thibet, where
q priests live at an altitude of 10000
feet.
About 70 per cent. Of the Jurors
drawn in New York city are of foreign
birth, and many Of them have slight
knowledge OF u laws or of the Eng
lish language,
Starvation, as found by coroner's
%iuries, caused the deaths of forty per-
sons, in London, during the year 1856,
as shown by an official report to the
House of Commons.
Mary Queen of Scots was As years
of age when executed IN Frotherfpgay
Castle. Queen Elizabeth, who signed
her death warrant, was at that time
Q597l "a years old.
"A meteor that didn't '1shoot,n but
which glowed for a quarter OF an hour,
according to the statement of a Quebec
correspondent, lighted up that city and
vicinity viyidly a few nights ago.
"A young girl attacked a saeak
tutOA III NCWaiAs new jersey, Llb Otler
day, threw him on his back and held
him there until assistance arrived. She
had seen him steal a hat from a hat
store.
1t is reported that a man in Penn
sylvania has a hen which recently laid
an egg measuring six and a half by
eight and a half inches. The hen Is a
black Brahma, and Is old enough to be
on the retired list.
Olive On, said to be OF the finest
quality, is being made this season in
Sonoma, California, and the production
of olives is confidently expected to be-
come n of the most important indus.
tries of the place.
"A boy named Card, at Hayesville.
near Salem, Oregon, died from the
effects Of a wound in the abdomen,
caused a few weeks ago by a croquet
mallet, which had slipped from the
hands of a companion.